The Latitude Pulls a Lazarus

Things were looking a bit dreary a few days ago, as the nincompoops at Dell tech support were thinking my Latitude Cpt’s motherboard was cooked. Turns out they were wrong (did I predict that?), and that the issue was something to do with  the RAM–swapping half of the Gateway‘s RAM (Wow! 32 MB!) solved everything, right up to CrunchBang throwing a kernel panic due to insufficient memory to boot off the CD with.

To be fair, Dell did question the RAM, but we agreed that 133mHz RAM would work in a 66mHz slot, which it did. And I, my techy cousin, and my programming teacher all agree that there is no such thing as “too fast” RAM. Go figure. I hate am not a big fan of hardware.

And now I’m not quite sure what to do with the darn thing. 32MB RAM and no hard drive does not an awesome laptop make, but since I’ve only put $5 into it I may hit up eBay for some parts (ooh! 20GB HD for <$30!). So I guess the ideal scenario would be to get Arch with Openbox running on it, with maybe a 4-6 GB Windows partition tucked away somewhere to satiate my love for StarCraft LAN gaming. Or if I only upgrade the RAM, I could maybe put Slax or Puppy or something on it…on second thoughts, maybe not.

…but it works!!